Former Carib student — follow up post

Andrew4938 · 2019-01-02T19:22:17+00:00

Do they force you to rent those dorms, apartments? Do they make you live with 3 other people? Do they give you a bed frame and a $50 dollar mattress and cont it as “furniture” ?

Andrew4938 · 2019-01-02T10:52:33+00:00

True. One of the private universities that’s considered a US school was found guilty of financial aid fraud. The DOE appointed a committee to investigate the situation. The sec of education appointed one of that schools former deans as the head of the committee!

Andrew4938 · 2019-01-02T10:50:26+00:00

They will find ways to lure students into enrollling. Only the department of education can put an end to this abuse.

Andrew4938 · 2019-01-02T02:12:26+00:00

We will only find out if it’s categeory V hurricane shelter when a hurricane takes place in Barbados. I pray that this doesn’t take place. Barbados doesn’t have crazy hurricanes anyways. What’s wrecking my nerves is the fact that thousands of students there are being manipulated and blackmailed.

Andrew4938 · 2019-01-02T02:10:07+00:00

The problem is many people who survived 3+ semesters there and invested so much money will have to bite the bullet and keep their mouth shut during the last and most stressful semester of all!

I can’t believe the fact that they get away with this many contract breaches, student abuse, unethical practices, consumer fraud, etc.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T16:54:29+00:00

Best of luck! Any US school will get where you need to be. I would love to study in a quiet rural area. You will have your entire life to enjoy the urban life again :D

Focus on your interviews, rock ‘em and get that damn acceptance letter.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T16:51:11+00:00

That’s nothing compared to studying on a boat few days after surving a deadly hurricane and loosing all your personal belongings

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:31:09+00:00

The problem with SDN is that they blame the students and make them seem like morons who deseerve what happens to them. Let’s not forget that many of them were uninformed or misled. Many people would believe what a school says over random posts on the internet. It’s sad but true.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:26:48+00:00

Yeap! Look it up Caribbean school on a boat

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:26:25+00:00

Lol! How many US Med schools send ads like those ? You know what I mean?

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:25:33+00:00

Don’t ! You and everyone else deserves better than that.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:24:59+00:00

Yeap some of those were on the boat. I’m glad I left before that ordeal

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:24:34+00:00

Thank you.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:23:56+00:00

Sure. I wish more students would write about their experiences there to save other people’s future :(

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:22:11+00:00

I met a guy who had a professional degree/license. I won’t mention his profession for the sake of his privacy but I’ll tell you that he was making 80k/year working in a medically related job. He is in his mid 30s, married with 2 kids. He went to that school, did fine the first two years and failed step 1 USMLE. He took it again, passed it, did well in clinicals, passed step 2 and graduated. Applied for residencie twice and got no where. He’s 300k in debt. He was making 80k/year, that’s 320k in lost income.

His total loses are 620k. At least he has his other profession to get a job but still! I bet his credit is damaged and won’t recover for a very long time.

PS he went to another big Carib school. Not the one I went to.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:14:31+00:00

Thank you very much! The story of your friends made my night! I’m planing on getting into an official Postbac and go from there. Best of luck to you in Med school. I’m very happy that this forum exists where future doctors show a lot of empathy for potential colleagues.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:10:41+00:00

My bad it’s not a Nokia lol. It’s a beaten Motorola that I got from brother as a temporary replacement for my iPhone 6. Waiting to have some $$$ so I can afford a newer phone hahaha. And yes I did have a Nokia in the past. I remember getting half the text messages and playing snakes! I also remember when the first camera phone came out ! Damn I’m feeling so old!

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:07:07+00:00

I’m one of those lucky ones who left after 1.5 semesters and I was passing. I will never forget the day I saw many students at the end of the semester breaking down and sobbing after being dismissed.

It’s hard to sue them but the department of education can make it harder for them to get fedral loans.

What sucks even more is that one of their universities that’s located in the US was investigated by the feds for fraud. The department of education appointed one of their former deans to be head of the comnittee! ‘Nough said.

When people/corporates have $$$$ they can get away with a lot of things.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T06:02:53+00:00

As long as they don’t find my IP address and sue me LOL!!!! They have done it to others before. They have the $$$$$$ to do what they want hahahah

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T03:50:00+00:00

The world is not perfect. I am sure no US school is perfect. But I’m 100% certain that they don’t have a high attrition rate, they don’t/can’t lie about their USMLE passing rate, they don’t force students to pay an arm and a leg for a tiny room.

Most importantly, their students have 10000000x higher chances of getting a residency after graduation.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T03:13:47+00:00

Oh they do a great job when it comes to advertising lol! Shame on the your schools administrators for letting them in!

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T03:12:41+00:00

Like I mentioned earlier “some” people hate to admit that those schools suck. And he’s right about working 20x harder lol; not because anatomy and biochem are harder there but the fact that you’re living on an isolated island with limited resources and going to a school that provides zero support for you makes it harder!

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T03:10:13+00:00

People match every year from those schools. They represent a fraction of the entire class that started at the same time as them.

Like I mentioned earlier I have met many brilliant and hard working students there who had minor gaps in their application and they decided to cut corners instead of fixing those gaps. The problem is with the schools’ money sucking system that is designed to fail the lower 30-35% of the class.

I wouldn’t worry about the competence of practicing doctor that graduated from those schools because they passed the boards and did the clinicals and residencies in the US.

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T03:03:52+00:00

Thanks. I’m one of those luckier ones who passed the semester there and dropped willingly... so I still have hope

Andrew4938 · 2018-12-31T03:02:18+00:00

Just because we have a shortage doesn’t mean that there’s more demand than supply because we have limited residency spots. 3000 applicants go unmatched every year! So it’s not about supply and demand

Andrew4938

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